No, JVCC, in this article the issue with google is that they admited to helping illegal activities to be advertised to American citizens (In this particular case was illegal drug acquisition, which you may see how would relate to the SOPA thing). The privacy issue is a separate piece of news.

On the privacy note, I guess google and others have only as much information as you're willing to share, so I don't have much of an issue: I simply don't click on the ads. What does piss me off is that they automatically detect what part of the world I'm in, and modify my services according to that, not only advertisement, but search results and related content - I hate it, since 99% of the time I rather have the US content available to me.

kupo wrote:Everyone has "dark" inside of them unless they've swallowed a flashlight

IanC wrote:Google's "Don't be evil" motto is a bunch of bullhonky, isn't it?

The main problem with that phrase isn't so much that it's wrong; it's more that it's so hopelessly woolly as to be essentially meaningless. I wouldn't say they're significantly worse than other businesses of similar size, though.

fanelian wrote:What does piss me off is that they automatically detect what part of the world I'm in, and modify my services according to that, not only advertisement, but search results and related content - I hate it, since 99% of the time I rather have the US content available to me.

the only way to accomplish this is to have an IP address which is located in the US. do you have any internet providers who will service your area which are based in the US?

ntw3001 wrote:Sass has to come from the heart, not from the shirt.

traubster wrote:I find it irritating whenever I walk through a cemetery and there's not one gravestone that reads something like, "We're all grateful that he's dead. Sorry if he owed you money."

#12 Cleveland, OhioThings have brightened in our 2010 most miserable city as unemployment is below the U.S. average at 7.7% and home prices are off just 4% since 2008. Cleveland still makes the cut thanks to high taxes (income and property) along with lousy weather and sports teams.

I'm a Cincinnatian and I approve this message.

James wrote:While writing this post I've been gripped by a growing concern that it's nothing more than incredibly tedious navel-gazing. But hey, this is the Internet.

jvcc wrote:I saw the Cheap Trick guy, by which I mean the lead singer, at an art gallery once. He had a ponytail.

He played a couple of songs with a friend of mine's band a few years ago at this little venue in PA. He was an asswaffle.

He looked it.

Rockford is also the home of the sock monkey. And we used to be called The Screw City, or something, because a lot of screws were made here before all the factories went away. We are still called The Forest City even though Dutch elm disease took all of our impressive trees away some time in the previous century.